#alive

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose. ↗

— Jack White

#care #come #evil #first #i

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#band #chemistry #come #direct #i

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#aspects #being #born #bothered #disturbing

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive. ↗

— Linda Vester

#finally #get #i #stay

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#even #fields #find #hand #other

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. ↗

— Chris Ware

#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#always #because #being #even #going

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ↗

— George Washington

#called #celestial #conscience #fire #keep